Sakura, the case of being special.

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The outlook of Sakura's lineage was anything but special, a case people use to forward, and thereafter justify the claim; she has fodder genes. While that may be true, the outcome of her character ironically makes her more special, perhaps than those whose lineage or clan was generally viewed as the "top-dog" on the series. A non-sentimental description preferably would refer them as aristocratic, but that doesn't really change anything in regards to their place in Naruto's society. It does however, embellish Sakura's rise to a level capable of challenging those within these distinguished groups. Truth be told, Sakura wasn't suppose to get to level she is currently not only because of her lineage, but in addition, the author's perspective towards her. According to Kishimoto, Sakura wasn't suppose to be a heroine due to her less-than or equal-to-average popularity. Howbeit, during the course of the series, he realised Sakura's part was special, and it needed to be recognised through the induction of individuality. How did Kishimoto come about this? By having her achieved a technique through a method undoubtedly basic.

Not basic as per the fact it wasn't a difficult method. In a different light, basic in the sense that she didn't need to enact certain stages of execution, like Sage Mode, the Rasengan e.t.c. She simply channelled her chakra towards a specific point for three years.

Ironically, the results didn't pay homage to the fact Sakura's chakra was mediocre. In fact, it completely forgone the state of her reserves as shown during the war. Under normal circumstances, the aggregate from a series of additions whose base is supported by mediocrity should be mediocre. Contrariwise, Sakura's aggregate was wholly "un-mediocre." It turns out, as it should be, this goes back to what I have established, she's special, more or less near the boundary of "asspull" but special nonetheless.

Let's put this into context.

Obito needed an enormous amount of chakra to traverse between Kaguya's dimension. The reason is because they (Kaguya's dimension) weren't his.

Naruto's clone volunteered his chakra. Obito outright stated it wasn't enough.

Sakura asked if the chakra from her technique would be sufficient to cover Obito's conditions.

Obito responded by saying, "that'll give me bare minimum" essentially vouching her request.

This was after she had used most of it to heal hundreds of people during the war. This was also part of the aggregate of chakra she accumulated from her mediocre reserves in three years.

Yet, it was enough to sustain Obito's space-time infiltration.

That has special written all over it!

This doesn't include the fact she learnt something exclusive in less than expected time and was able to force a consensus towards her importance on Naruto world.

Sakura didn't just inconsiderate the need of characters to be from noble clans, she modified the conditions of character evaluation. Furthermore, she solidified her place besides characters like Guy, and Jiraiya who achieved legendary status through hard work.

Indeed, she proved us wrong, and proved the author wrong as well.
 
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Nicely put... I’m afraid this thread is going to get derailed soon, but very eloquently stated nonetheless. It’s a breath of fresh air from the usual threads and I thank you for that.

Would +rep you if I could.
 

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Honestly have nothing against Sakura and i agree with most of this apart from that individuality part. If its what i think it means, it would not be correct as Sakura is more or less a sort of copy paste of Tsunade.

Also, the RSM clone thing seems iffy. Its stated in the DB that the healing is more or less the same as Hashirama's and its only that Tsunade and by extension Sakura don't have the chakra to use it like him hence why they store chakra first. Its more or less Hashirama level chakra which is >= BM Naruto as per Hashirama's .

RSM Naruto should logically have more chakra than BM Naruto and considering Sakura had actually already tapped into the reserves like you said, it doesn't make sense that it should be more than RSM Naruto's except those clones weren't actually shadow clones... which doesn't make sense either?

Anyway, good thread again.
 

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Didn’t read but i know Sakura solos
Such disrespect.

OT: good thread and valid points, another unnoticed feat of Sakura's is she was able to resist the effects of the Rokudo rods used by double rinnegan SM JJ Madara and still attempt an attack on him. For somebody with no hand me outs she's actually quite powerful and underrated.

Ps. It's more than likely that the :salt:lords will be making an appearance to derail your thread.
 
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Such disrespect.

OT: good thread and valid points, another unnoticed feat of Sakura's is she was able to resist the effects of the Rokudo rods used by double rinnegan SM JJ Madara and still attempt an attack on him. For somebody with no hand me outs she's actually quite powerful and underrated.

Ps. It's more than likely that the :salt:lords will be making an appearance to derail your thread.
It’s too long i don’t even read my own studies LOL
 

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Honestly have nothing against Sakura and i agree with most of this apart from that individuality part. If its what i think it means, it would not be correct as Sakura is more or less a sort of copy paste of Tsunade.

Also, the RSM clone thing seems iffy. Its stated in the DB that the healing is more or less the same as Hashirama's and its only that Tsunade and by extension Sakura don't have the chakra to use it like him hence why they store chakra first. Its more or less Hashirama level chakra which is >= BM Naruto as per Hashirama's .

RSM Naruto should logically have more chakra than BM Naruto and considering Sakura had actually already tapped into the reserves like you said, it doesn't make sense that it should be more than RSM Naruto's except those clones weren't actually shadow clones... which doesn't make sense either?

Anyway, good thread again.
It's actually a different reference as you've hinted.

There isn't actually a fixed level of chakra Byakugou could contained. Hashirama's chakra is of course the benchmark, but anything above that is a good condition to use Byakugou. So, it may be the amount of chakra Sakura accumulated was bigger than Hashirama normal reserves.
 

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This makes me think of the whole "Sakura is like Tsunade" argument...People only look at the fact that they use the same techniques but if you get really technical then no she kinda isn't like Tsunade. Tsunade came from a special blood line while Sakura was suppose to be some "normal average" girl. Her being normal and supposedly average is the think that made her unique because it was unexpected of a "normal" person to acheive such power and master is just at the very young age of 16 at that.
 

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It's actually a different reference as you've hinted.

There isn't actually a fixed level of chakra Byakugou could contained. Hashirama's chakra is of course the benchmark, but anything above that is a good condition to use Byakugou. So, it may be the amount of chakra Sakura accumulated was bigger than Hashirama normal reserves.
Don't wanna go too much into this. Would like to know your opinion though as that dimension travel feat suggests that version of Byakugo Sakura has more chakra than RSM Naruto. Do you agree with that?
 

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If you break it down from the fancy english you get a thread thats nothing more than giving focus to few scenes of her character from the War arc. Sakura never had gradual development its all been off screen. For the main heroine of your series that is not good enough.
 

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If you break it down from the fancy english you get a thread thats nothing more than giving focus to few scenes of her character from the War arc. Sakura never had gradual development its all been off screen. For the main heroine of your series that is not good enough.
I'm pretty sure my thread didn't emphasize Sakura's appearances and growth development.
 
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